Veteran's Day

[Old Man Jingles]

i want to grab your knobby knee and squeeze

Watchu talking 'bout boy?

 

[Jones]

Pipe cleaner arms. Lmao!

You actually don't find many buffed out dudes in combat MOS's, that's kind of a Hollywood thing. Endurance is a better attribute than muscle mass in the infantry and most line companies have a lot of guys who look about like Rod does in that pic.

 

[Old Man Jingles]

You actually don't find many buffed out dudes in combat MOS's, that's kind of a Hollywood thing. Endurance is a better attribute than muscle mass in the infantry and most line companies have a lot of guys who look about like Rod does in that pic.

They are all that ugly?

 

[It will be fine]

I am not a Nixon fan and I am somewhat ashamed that I hated him as much as Jones, Sporty and Itzy hate Trump. At least I had an excuse of being a teenager to have such an emotional response to politics.
Some people grow up emotionally and others ... well you can see.
They all seem to have 2 X chromosomes.

Did you have a point or just an ad hominem attack.

 

[Old Man Jingles]

Just an observation and then a wry comparison.

Really, to establish that I know what y’all are going through ... although I grew out of that some 40 years ago, I can still feel remember that irrational and emotional state.

 

[Serf]

You actually don't find many buffed out dudes in combat MOS's, that's kind of a Hollywood thing. Endurance is a better attribute than muscle mass in the infantry and most line companies have a lot of guys who look about like Rod does in that pic.

I would tend to agree. However, I still hated the 2 mile run we had to do for our PT test. Always said it should be 1 mile.

 

[oldngray]

You actually don't find many buffed out dudes in combat MOS's, that's kind of a Hollywood thing. Endurance is a better attribute than muscle mass in the infantry and most line companies have a lot of guys who look about like Rod does in that pic.

Yeah more like runners than bodybuilders. More about moving your own body weight around and extra bulk muscle mass is kind of a disadvantage. Unless you need a pack mule.

 

[Serf]

Unless you need a pack mule.

to carry the M60/240 bravo !

 

[Jones]

I would tend to agree. However, I still hated the 2 mile run we had to do for our PT test. Always said it should be 1 mile.

You woulda loved the marines then, we had to run 3.

 

[Serf]

You woulda loved the marines then, we had to run 3.

Correct me if I'm wrong, 3 days a week PT was conducted? Not 5? If so, I'm a fan.

 

[Jones]

Correct me if I'm wrong, 3 days a week PT was conducted? Not 5? If so, I'm a fan.

PT was every day unless we were in the field.

 

[Serf]

PT was every day unless we were in the field.

Eh, fair enough. Maybe I thougt I heard PT was M-W-friend. Combatives/jiu jitsu T-Th.

 

[Jones]

Eh, fair enough. Maybe I thougt I heard PT was M-W-friend. Combatives/jiu jitsu T-Th.

Well it's been a few years, who knows what they do these days. Group PT might have been my least favorite activity anyway, I love working out and running on my own but I despised running in formation and all those stupid calisthenics.

 

[rod]

They are all that ugly?

damn right---war don't like pretty boys

 

[rod]

PT was every day unless we were in the field.

The Daily Dozen--12 different exercises and I can't remember how many reps each. (Didn't happen in Vietnam and not every day stateside. It was a daily thing in Basic Training and AIT (schooling in your field) after Basic. Once out of schooling it all depended on how gung-ho your Co. Commander was. That was my experience.

 

[Jones]

The Daily Dozen--12 different exercises and I can't remember how many reps each. (Didn't happen in Vietnam and not every day stateside. It was a daily thing in Basic Training and AIT (schooling in your field) after Basic. Once out of schooling it all depended on how gung-ho your Co. Commander was. That was my experience.

We had some crap called The Daily Seven, I guess they figured marines couldn't count to 12....

 

[rod]

 

[rod]

looks like a fricked up place to be stuck. thanks for your service.

That picture was taken one day when we were moving to a different fire support base in a convoy of about 30 tracked vehicles (Armored Personal Carriers like mine and tanks) The whole trip was about 20 miles - all of it making our own roads through the brush/swamps and jungle. Needless to say after about a dozen vehicles go across a mud bog like this it gets a little soupy. I was assigned to this track which was the "mechanics track". Part of our job was to get people unstuck. After getting a couple tracks out we bogged down ourselves and were left behind with 2 other tracks by the rest of the convoy to fend for our selves (they told us to keep in radio contact-which didn't leave you with a warm fuzzy feeling). Eventually everyone got unstuck and we made it to our destination. That was a scary day. We could have been over ran very easily.

 

[rod]

I would tend to agree. However, I still hated the 2 mile run we had to do for our PT test. Always said it should be 1 mile.

If memory serves me right I think you had to do it in under 14 minutes to pass. Not as easy as it sounds wearing combat boots.

 

[Jones]

If memory serves me right I think you had to do it in under 14 minutes to pass. Not as easy as it sounds wearing combat boots.

I remember (vaguely) when 7 minute miles felt like an easy pace, it'd be a ball buster these days.